The 17th Annual AAAI Robot Workshop and Exhibition

Chicago, IL, USA, July 13-17, 2008

Held In Conjunction with the AAAI 2008 - the 23rd Annual National Conference

Fast Links: [Call for Papers (Closed)] [Workshop Schedule] [Planning Committee]

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Workshop on Robotics and Creativity: July 14, 2008 Morning

This workshop explores the roles that creativity plays in robotics. This includes research where robots employ cognitive models and computation to display creativity. Also explored are partnerships among artists, scientists and engineers to generate a creative synergy and stimulate breakthroughs.

Format: A distinguished panel will kick off the workshop by providing a broad overview of the area, emerging paradigms and exciting opportunities. Those invited to exhibit at AAAI, will give short 10-minute briefs. These talks provide examples and personal thoughts of creativity and robotics. The workshop concludes with a 60-min Discussion Forum to capture thoughts and generate research roadmaps.

Schedule

Speaker Bio and Abstracts link

Time
08:20 Youngmoo Kim Drexel University and Workshop Chair Opening Remarks
08:30 Amy Baylor National Science Foundation CISE CreativeIT Program
09:00 Ruzena Bajcsy UC Berkeley Robotics and Dance
09:30 Stellan Ohlsson University of Illinois Chicago Mechanisms of Creativity
10:00 Gil Weinberg Georgia Tech Drum Playing Robot
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Reid Simmons CMU Keepon and Dancing Robots
10:50 Jeff Lieberman MIT Absolut Quartet and Musical Robots
10:55 Debra Burhans Canisius College The Great Wumpus Hunt
11:00 Zachary Dodds Harvey Mudd College Algorithms in AI
11:05 Andrea Thomaz Georgia Tech Affordances and Teaching
11:10 Todd Murphey University of Colorado Boulder MarioNET: Robotics and Puppets
11:15 Richard Margolin Hanson Robotics Zeno
11:20 All Participants Discussion Forum Research Roadmaps: Near-term and Grand Challenges
12:30 Adjourn
Exhibits will be showcased on July 15 and 16. This gives audiences opportunities to see and experience what was discussed in the Workshop.

Workshop on Mobility and Manipulation: July 14 Afternoon

This workshop explores advanced perception and cognition that significantly advances and/or speeds robot mobility and/or manipulation. Format: A distinguished panel will kick off the workshop by providing a broad overview of the area, emerging paradigms and exciting opportunities. Those invited to exhibit at AAAI, will give short 10-minute briefs. These talks provide examples and personal thoughts of mobility and manipulation. The workshop concludes with a 60-min Discussion Forum to capture thoughts and generate research roadmaps.

Schedule

Speaker Bio and Abstracts link

Time
13:50 Monica Anderson Drexel University and Workshop Chair Opening Remarks
14:00 Robert Mandelbaum DARPA IPTO Programs
14:30 Stewart Tansley Microsoft Research Robotics Research
15:00 Oliver Brock University of Massachusetts, Amherst Results of 2005 NASA/NSF Workshop on Mobile Manipulation
15:30 Charlie Kemp Georgia Tech Mobile Manipulation
16:00 Coffee Break
16:25 Howie Choset CMU Snake Robots
16:30 Andrew Ng Stanford STAIR: Stanford AI Robot platform
16:35 Jerry Weinberg Southern Illinois University Formations and Legged Robots
16:45 David Touretzky CMU Hexapods
16:50 David Gustafson Kansas State University Semantic Vision
16:55 Jianna Zhang Western Washington University Robot Vision
17:00 All Participants Discussion Forum Research Roadmaps: Near-term and Grand Challenges
18:00 Adjourn
Exhibits will be showcased on July 15 and 16. This gives audiences opportunities to see and experience what was discussed in the Workshop.

Planning Committee

  Event co-Chairs:         Paul Oh (Drexel), Chad Jenkins (Brown)
  Workshop Chairs:         Youngmoo Kim (Drexel), Monica Anderson (Univ of Alabama)
Questions should be emailed to both Paul Oh and Chad Jenkins